FBI Admits It Has Lots Of Documents About Targeting Christians
If ever you thought that the Biden Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Deep State that we knew had been used to punish groups since the days of the Obama administration, had been weaponized to target Christians, here is hard proof.
I mean, we already HAD proof in the horrendous case of Mark Houck, who was arrested by the FBI (after a SWAT raid at his home that traumatized his family) for alleged violations of the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act. Houck was acquitted in federal court, which left a whole lot of egg on the face of the DOJ. But it has become increasingly clear that the DOJ has a target on pro-life activists and parent groups that support traditional values – and as a result, it has turned its Eye of Sauron onto those they call “radical traditionalist” Christians.
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) submitted a FOIA request to the FBI, and then sued when the FBI failed to comply. Well, the FBI did finally submit a response, which chief counsel Jay Sekulow (whom you may remember as one of Donald Trump’s lawyers from his first impeachment) is now highlighting on Twitter/X.
For some clarity, here is some of what the ACLJ requested in the FOIA.
Some of our specific requests are reproduced below:
1) All records of communications between or including the FBI’s Director, Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, or any of their senior staff or assistants, or of any other FBI official of a GS-13 or appointee level or higher personnel (including forwarded email messages or CC or BCC email messages), about pro-life people OR Catholicism (including adherents of Catholicism) OR Christianity (including adherents of Christianity) – all in the context of analysis, threat assessment, domestic terrorism, or the monitoring of such people.
2) All records of briefings or communications between or including the FBI’s Director, Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, or any of their senior staff or assistants, or of any other FBI official of a GS-13 or appointee level or higher personnel (including forwarded email messages or CC or BCC email messages), that mention the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. __ (2022).
3) All records of communications between or including the FBI Richmond field office personnel, including analysists, senior staff or assistants, or of any other FBI official of a GS-13 or appointee level or higher (including forwarded email messages or CC or BCC email messages), about the memo described in the “Background” section above.
4) All records of communications between or including the FBI Richmond field office personnel, including analysists, senior staff or assistants, or of any other FBI official of a GS-13 or appointee level or higher (including forwarded email messages or CC or BCC email messages), about pro-life people OR Catholicism (including adherents of Catholicism) OR Christianity (including adherents of Christianity) – in the context of analysis, threat assessment, domestic terrorism, or the monitoring of such people.
Congratulations to Catholics and Protestants – full ecumenical parity has been achieved, for we are all seen as threats to the Department of Justice if we follow Biblical teachings! Wow. Mary I and Elizabeth I are surely thrilled with this development.
But back to the problem at hand. What the actual hell is the FBI doing with 1,200 pages of documents on Christians???
The Biden FBI has just informed the ACLJ and a federal judge that it has found at least 1,200 pages of “potentially responsive documents” to our FOIA and needs more time to continue further searches. This begs the question: What in the world is the FBI doing with 1,200 pages of documents related to the targeting of Christians?
The Joint Status Report filed in federal court this week states, in relevant part: “[T]he FBI represented to [the ACLJ] that, thus far, it has identified 1,200 pages of potentially responsive documents.” (This is important because the FBI told the court this information and cannot change its statement without admitting that it misrepresented something to the court.)
Two questions immediately come to mind about the pages: (1) Why is the FBI surveilling churches at all? (2) And do they have more?
Well, I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t give me a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that Big Brother is busy watching churches, especially if they support pro-life positions and causes.
The federal government has been weaponized to be reactionary. Remember that the TEA Party first became a movement, and then gained the scrutiny of the IRS (and no one was ever held accountable for that). Now, we have a Deep State that is deeply bitter about the Dobbs decision, and are looking to slap down any pro-life activists that they think has even put one toe out of line (and even if they are acquitted, they’ve ended up in a financial hole due to legal fees that is more than punishing enough), or scare traditional parents who got fed up during COVID lockdowns – and saw what their children were being taught – into not raising their voices at school board meetings over their child’s education.
One thousand two hundred pages from the those at the top of the FBI, their senior staff, and appointees and personnel of a certain rank, especially at the Richmond, Virginia field office (which is alleged to have placed undercover informants within Catholic churches), all with an eye to tracking what churches have been doing in the wake of the Dobbs decision. If there was ever an argument that Big Brother is really watching you, then this is it. How is this not the federal government attempting to find the “wrongthink” and punish it with lawfare? And it’s not even that they love abortion this much (though some do). It’s that the federal government absolutely resents having their power taken away and given to the states, and they are angry that Christians refuse to obey the state instead of God. This is always about control, and power. The left sees government as the highest authority. The church does not.
The ACLJ has asked two very important questions here of the FBI. We shall have to wait and see what the FBI is compelled to cough up by the courts. Regardless of what comes next, the veil on the Deep State has been torn away, and we can all see the attempt to intimidate and grab power. However, lawfare works both ways, and the FBI would be wise to remember that.